Commit b918ecd2 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] hwmon: Do not forcibly enable via686a by default

Do not enable the VIA VT82C686A/B integrated sensors by default, as
disabled sensors usually means that this feature is not used so the
values won't make any sense. This has been confusing many users in the
past:

  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1786
  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1811
  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=2052

It is still possible to forcibly enable the sensors by using the
force_addr module parameter.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/hwmon/via686a |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 drivers/hwmon/via686a.c     |   18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
parent e415e48b
......@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ Authors:
Module Parameters
-----------------
force_addr=0xaddr Set the I/O base address. Useful for Asus A7V boards
that don't set the address in the BIOS. Does not do a
force_addr=0xaddr Set the I/O base address. Useful for boards that
don't set the address in the BIOS. Look for a BIOS
upgrade before resorting to this. Does not do a
PCI force; the via686a must still be present in lspci.
Don't use this unless the driver complains that the
base address is not set.
......@@ -63,3 +64,15 @@ miss once-only alarms.
The driver only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often
will do no harm, but will return 'old' values.
Known Issues
------------
This driver handles sensors integrated in some VIA south bridges. It is
possible that a motherboard maker used a VT82C686A/B chip as part of a
product design but was not interested in its hardware monitoring features,
in which case the sensor inputs will not be wired. This is the case of
the Asus K7V, A7V and A7V133 motherboards, to name only a few of them.
So, if you need the force_addr parameter, and end up with values which
don't seem to make any sense, don't look any further: your chip is simply
not wired for hardware monitoring.
......@@ -589,10 +589,8 @@ static int via686a_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
u16 val;
/* 8231 requires multiple of 256, we enforce that on 686 as well */
if (force_addr)
address = force_addr & 0xFF00;
if (force_addr) {
address = force_addr & 0xFF00;
dev_warn(&adapter->dev, "forcing ISA address 0x%04X\n",
address);
if (PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL !=
......@@ -603,11 +601,17 @@ static int via686a_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
pci_read_config_word(s_bridge, VIA686A_ENABLE_REG, &val))
return -ENODEV;
if (!(val & 0x0001)) {
dev_warn(&adapter->dev, "enabling sensors\n");
if (force_addr) {
dev_info(&adapter->dev, "enabling sensors\n");
if (PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL !=
pci_write_config_word(s_bridge, VIA686A_ENABLE_REG,
val | 0x0001))
return -ENODEV;
} else {
dev_warn(&adapter->dev, "sensors disabled - enable "
"with force_addr=0x%x\n", address);
return -ENODEV;
}
}
/* Reserve the ISA region */
......
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